CVE-2022-34795
Published: 30 June 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-34795 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Deployment Dashboard. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2022-34795 affects the Jenkins Deployment Dashboard Plugin in versions 1.0.10 and earlier. It is a stored cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) arising because the plugin does not escape environment names rendered on the Deployment Dashboard view, carrying a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.4.
Attackers who hold View or Configure permission on the affected Jenkins instance can supply crafted environment names that persist in the dashboard. When other users view the page, the injected scripts execute in their browsers, enabling limited impacts on confidentiality and integrity as reflected in the CVSS vector.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2022-06-30 at https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2022-06-30/#SECURITY-2799 addresses the issue and outlines mitigation steps for administrators. The associated EPSS score reached a peak of 0.1425 before receding to its current value of 0.0910.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-6286
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Deployment Dashboard Plugin 1.0.10 and earlier does not escape environment names on its Deployment Dashboard view, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with View/Configure permission.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.